The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-10-29
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must labor SO harQ Tor their nOTsei Vi uTeau
"And to better their humble condition
at is hard that they have to keep working
"When the pathways Of pleasure are shining
and gay
81 pity them"
Sometimes we feel sure that this idea is right,
And we grumble, and sizzle, and splutter.
But / guess we don't lose such terrible
sight
By earning our own bread and butter.
And I'll say to that kindly old gent, Never
fret.
"If boy earns his living and keeps out of
debt,
"Don't pity him"
Don't pity the girl who can earn her own
In any refined occupation,
If she has but the requisite brains IN her head
To hold responsible station.
II she has the ambition, and courage, and
nerve
To stick right to business and never to swerye,
Don't pity her.
But pity the girl who has only one thought,
And that's fashion, and dressing, and CAD
ding;
Who imagnes that beauty's thing to be
bought
With powder, and painting, ana padding;
Who has never known anything noble or high,
And who lives just because she's too lazy to
die
Pity her.
Don't pity the boy who has something to do,
And the courage and strength to 90
through it;
He'll prosper in time, and in little time, too,
His spunk will compel him to do it.
If he knows how to work, and to lay up his
pelf,
He'll get along, and take care of himself
Don't pity him.
But pity the youth with big lot of pelf
Who is bulky, conceited, land lazy,
Who is just most terriically struck on him
self,
And who thinks he's vertable daisy;
Who has only got beef where there ought to
be brains,
And who don't know enough to 60 in when it
rains,-
Pity him.
There was little popularity in the acting
of Virginius at the Opera House last Mon
day evening which let little glimmer of
absurdity into the darkest scene of the black
tragedy, and knocked the pathos of one act
sky-high. After Virginius had stabbed his
daughter Virginia to the heart, and they
were all moving up to put mansard roof on
him, he fourished his arm fiercely in the
air, with the dagger, fresh from the heart of
the fair Virginia, and the aforesaid dagger
was as clean and shining as il It had just
been rubbed with whiting and a flannel rag.
1t didn't reek with gore even little bit.
Messrs. Moleney & Stead are very eagerly
and zealously laboring in the cause of the
great People for the punishment of all evil
doors. Thieves, robbers and all kinds Of ras-
calls are mixing the acquaintance of La Sale
county's able prosecutors. Mr.. Stead goes
even one step farther than Mr.. Moloney. Mr.,
Moloney has all sorts Of malefactors on the
string, but Mr.. Stead has felon on his
finger.
The wind blew very hard last Saturday
afternoon. A citizen residing on the east
side, and who is gentleman of unimpeach.
bic veracity, says that he was going home
Saturday evening with a jug of molasses and
the wind blew the cork out of the Jug
Some horsenen think it would be an ex-
cellent plan to have a race meeting the week
between Christmas and New Year 8. They
think there would bs a better attendance
than there was last week.
Hank Holmes horses baked on the street
Monday with load of ice. The horses
were right. 1t was too cold to deliver ice.
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There is really remarkable controversy
in progress which unfortunately only the
members of the press of the county can
truly enjoy, they only being in possession of
both sides of the argument. The Ottawa
Cellar, being friend of Min, and knowing
Min to be the only simon-pure tragedian on
the American stage at this time, could not con-
scienciously avoid printing its opinion that
Louis James, as a tragedian, is but cham
fatter.' Now, the critic of the Streator
Ind Times, knowing full we'll that the critic
of the Cellar can't tell the difference in the
dark between a tragedan and a horse
blanket, insists that Min is the great cham
fatter' par excellence, and that James is I'M
questiOnably the only successor the world is
likely to see Of the late lamented Edwin
Forrest and John Mccullough with whom
James is compared to his superlative and
eternal glory, having at a bound "a Ia "their